It’s a bad news to me that I have to use Windows for my work because there is no way that I can use “ArcGIS” on my lovely Mac. So I did install Windows XP (no Vista ever of course) and use VMware to run Windows with my Windows partition in Bootcamp.
Now I face the big problem because I used to my Command + C, Command +V …. but in Windows, Control button is used instead. There is no Keyboard mapping in Windows XP (only available in Vista).
What I did is I swap Command key and Control key by edit some registry by following this How to.
However if you don’t need to mess up with registry, I did put the executable “remap” that you can just download and run it on Windows. After reboot, the key will swap for you automatically
UPDATE: I am testing on vmware fusion 2.0 and it works. More info here
UPDATE2: Now I don’t have any problem swapping keys anymore since I have been using Parallel Desktop 4 . So I totally recommend checking out Parallel Desktop instead of VMware fusion.
#1 by Kirk on May 25th, 2008
This is awesome! It works! This is the best resource I’ve found for this annoying issue.
#2 by Kirk on May 25th, 2008
This is a great fix for an annoying issue. Here is the code to switch both command keys with the control key and vice versa. Just paste this text into a new Notepad document, save it with whatever name you like, and then double click to execute. Note: you will need to restart the computer for the effect to take place.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
“Scancode Map”=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,1D,00,5B,E0,1D,E0,5C,E0,5B,E0,1D,00,00,00,00,00
#3 by Colin Day on February 8th, 2009
I found this little key tweak visual mapper that works on the keyboard scan codes and alters the registry. I was easily able to remap each apple command key to left control and right alt. This way it my bootcamp xp behaves more like osx, and I don’t really have a need for a windows key anyway.
http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/
#4 by Andrey on February 22nd, 2009
This is all great,
both fixes, however i lost my ability to type “alt+control+delete” to provoke the task manager in windows, which is rather essential working in an unstable MS environment
any ideas to reassign the “alt+control+delete” function to other key combination?
#5 by jkkljklkjlj on March 8th, 2009
the link now returns a 404, just fyi
#6 by admin on May 30th, 2009
Thanks jkkljklkjlj, I did fixed the link.
#7 by eli on December 5th, 2009
this used to work on my xp bootcamp but it is not working on my windows 7 partition